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“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

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im already talking about this

vaccines are little ufos (that cause cancer, breast cancer testicle cancer and vagina cancer specifically). and a host of other birth mutations. article with ~25 graphs (disease rates post vaccine boom 1975) coming soon. if you dont want to wait google '4chan/sci/ archive' and search that archive ' Vaccines are devolving people?'

additionaly the sperm count avg has bombed since 1975 when they 4x'd the vaxx rate every 5 years

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>There's also some fun stuff about people physically carrying information (this also happens in short story "Johnny Mnemonic"). For a world where there's a highly connected, super fast worldwide computer network available, people sure travel around a lot. Sneakernet isn't an irrelevant concept in any sort of context where data transferred through a computer network can be intercepted.

But carrying a concealed micro-sd card with encrypted data would be a lot more convenient. Heck, you could fit many times as much data as in Johnny Mnemonic (40GB, I think?) inside your head too by shoving a micro-sd card up your nose or into your ear.

Nose, ear, really?

On a more realistic note, what is the maximum microsdxc card capacity of a human rectum?

Re: “Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

#73

im already talking about this vaccines are little ufos (that cause cancer, breast cancer testicle cancer and vagina cancer specifically). and a host of other birth mutations. article with ~25 graphs (disease rates post vaccine boom 1975) coming soon. if you dont want to wait google '4chan/sci/ archive' and search that archive ' Vaccines are devolving people?' additionaly the sperm count avg has bombed since 1975 when…

You sound clinically insane.

Re: “Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

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There's one scene in it—and I think people who have seen the movie know the one I'm talking about—that's possibly the most powerful, intense scene I've ever seen on screen. Absolutely worth watching.

Even though it's not an "action" movie, it's always my go-to scene for an explanation of what makes a great action sequence. After that, I genuinely felt on the edge of my seat the rest of the movie; anything could happen.

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On a lighter note, I had a good chuckle when the article mentioned that the director deliberately avoided depiction of cellphones to avoid creating an unintentional period piece[0]. The last movie I watched in the treatre is Clint Eastwood's "Sully" and I distinctly remember the main character using a chronologically appropoaite Samsung flip phone and that single prop instantly dates the movie to the first decade of…

Blade Runner's production design is beautiful and almost prefectly timeless in its depiction of a future. The only thing that dates the film for me is the cathode ray tubes. They are even in the flying cars I think.

Directors and designers could start using flat blue devices so that interfaces can be re-imagined, in 2-D, or 3-D, and composited in future re-masterings. I like the non-desript tri-fold devices in Westworld. Kudos to the 2001 team for getting imagining tablet interfaces although that did not sway the jury Samsung vs Apple iPad case[1][2].

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/23/samsung_cites_scie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....

Re: “Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

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Slightly OT but pertains to "Children of Men"

The scenes where main character Theo Faron (Clive Owen) is on the really nice buses, and there is classical music playing in the background, while outside the window there is so much poverty really resonated with me.

I've lived in SF going on 6 years now. My apt complex has private buses that run from here to FDi in the morning and evening. The route sometimes changes but a lot of the time we would go thru the heart of the TL. I'd be half asleep comfortably siting on this Bauer's bus, usually listening to something like Aphex Twin's Select Ambient Works, so not the classic music, but still I would sit there in this amazingly privileged situation and look out the window to all this poverty and despair. It constantly reminded me of this movie.

I worked at Apple for a while, and the same thing, yet instead of my apt complex, it was dozens of Apple buses, shuttling 1000s of people for all over the bay area, and again on the way i'd see so much that really made me think about the current affairs of lots of things that's going crazy in our small little part of the world.

I've since left Apple and joined to a small startup near Union Square/FDi area. I still live in the same apt complex, and they still have the buses running every 15-20 min in the morning, but i don't ride them any more.

I walk the 2 miles everyday to and back from work, and I love it. For so many reasons I love it. One big reason is I don't want to be shielded or sheltered from the real world going on around us. I don't want to deal with the shit on the sidewalk or the craziness that exists in between my spot and my work, but i also don't want to pretend it doesn't exist and try and ignore it.

Sometimes it can be very annoying, hell even scary. But also, A few times it's been amazing rewarding to help someone for 5 minutes. All sorts of little things, I've helped people that can't get their wheelchair from the street onto the sidewalk, or helping the elderly man trying to pick up a heavy box of fruit delivery for his corner store I walk past.

I've had to explain this to some friends that live in apt complex. They take the bus daily and asked why I don't ride it any more, and again it all comes back to the bus scene from Children Of Men.

Re: “Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

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There's one scene in it—and I think people who have seen the movie know the one I'm talking about—that's possibly the most powerful, intense scene I've ever seen on screen. Absolutely worth watching.

It's moving moment, but what I remember about it is how the rug is immediately yanked out from under it.

That's the most depressing part of the whole thing :-(

Re: “Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

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> The one aspect of the film that doesn’t seem to be coming true is its central premise. The idea is that no human beings have been born in the last 18 years, so when Theo meets Kee, an African woman who is miraculously pregnant, he has to protect her from the various groups who want to exploit her condition. Obviously, we know that this infertility pandemic hasn’t happened: in Children of Men, the youngest person on…

It's not about population, and not quite about having no 'future' (though you could say that) - it's about social nihilism and a crises of faith (in the book, literally, in the film, a little more existentially).

Re: “Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

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There's one scene in it—and I think people who have seen the movie know the one I'm talking about—that's possibly the most powerful, intense scene I've ever seen on screen. Absolutely worth watching.

Truly. Actually, there are a few of those 'scenes'.

Re: “Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

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post #73

im already talking about this vaccines are little ufos (that cause cancer, breast cancer testicle cancer and vagina cancer specifically). and a host of other birth mutations. article with ~25 graphs (disease rates post vaccine boom 1975) coming soon. if you dont want to wait google '4chan/sci/ archive' and search that archive ' Vaccines are devolving people?' additionaly the sperm count avg has bombed since 1975 when…

You sound clinically insane.

well debate me on video

or fight me boxing in real life

or stfu. nerd. im totally sane. (and a good boxer and great debater, and engineer. and f* you)

google lobotomobile, then go get one plz

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